TOP: While Amtrak No. 514 finished pushing No. 4859 to its storage location at the end of the Market Street Running Track, Norfolk Southern was busy running freights through the Harris- burg Terminal. C40-9 No. 8856 was in charge of an eastbound. ABOVE: The photo line was briefly distracted from watching No. 4859 move out of the station as Norfolk & Western ES44AC heritage unit No. 8103 pulled out of the Harrisburg intermodal terminal.
cars long, there is plenty of room at the end of the running track for the GG1 and caboose to sit. Barricades will be built east of the two historic pieces — just in case. No. 514 then went back to the station
to retrieve No. 4859. Meanwhile, on the other side of the State Street Bridge, an eastbound Norfolk Southern train led by NS’s Norfolk & Western heritage lo- comotive, was getting ready to head out. The photo line on the bridge watched as the nose of No. 4859 poked out from under the station canopy at the same time as the freight started
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moving. Was there time to run across State Street to shoot the freight and get back across State Street in time to shoot the GG1 passing Harris Tower? Everyone looked south, then north, then south again, then north again. As soon as it became apparent that there would be time for both, about 25 pho- tographers charged across State Street to get the heritage unit. With time to spare, the photo line repositioned itself on the south side of the bridge to get the PRR veteran passing the ex-PRR tow- er. Videographers who opted to stay in the parking lot near the tower were re-
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